G4H 2006: Making Hospitals Fun
Posted by Peter Smith on 06-10-04I loved this presentation. It started with the guys dragging up a purple fiberglass kiosk that looked something like a hippo with a LCD screen where the face should be. These students from the ETC at Carnegie Mellon University started up the box and showed us their game kiosk for pre-op children. They had one interesting goal to create a game for children where they would not mind putting it down. What they came up with is basically an interactive coloring book. Children can set colors and when they are done hit a giant play button to start an animation. At one point they said something that most Serious Games developers do not understand. They had to break the rules and add some text. That is right, in good game design the interface should be self explanatory without text.